hi so let's talk about the Mac Pro problem
Apple updated its trade-in program valuations of existing Macs and it's
pretty pretty depressing even by Apple standards now let's say I want to trade in my valued 13
000 Mac Pro and upgrade to something with apple silicon if I don't want to wait for the Mac Pro
version which we will talk about in a minute so I say you know what I miss having a laptop so I'm
going to go ahead and order a 16 inch and we are going to get the M2 Max 96 gigs of RAM compared
to my 160. storage will go crazy I'll just go like two terabytes is good enough for internal
storage I think all right and that is valued at 4699 pre-tax now again this machine is valued at
13 of course I'm not gonna get 13 from a trade-in program but I think it should offset the cost a
fair amount 970 dollars now what's crazy is that is not just for my specific machine that is the
cap for all Mac Pros all those Studios and people who bought 52 000 plus dollar fully specked out
Mac Pro are getting the same trade-in values so actually my favorite source for trading in Apple
products has always been Mac me and offer this video I'm not affiliated with them in any way
whatsoever generally for the past decade whenever I've sold or traded in products this is where
I've sold it to now right off the bat you can see that their estimate for the base model mid 2019 is
21.25 already astronomically better again this is based on a six thousand dollar computer and
you're basically getting a third of the value two years later I don't know if that's great or not
but it sure beats 970 dollars the other difference that I really love Mac me and offer is one of the
questions that they ask is does your product have any extraordinary upgrades so this is where you
can actually go in and say hey I upgraded the ram 260 gigs I added a secondary GPU basically
all these upgrades that add a ton of value to the computer but herein lies the next Mac Pro problem
because it is now the final Intel machine and because this computer's kind of become laughable
and that's not to say it's not a good computer I'm going to touch on that in a few minutes but
last year Max Tech did a great video comparing his fifteen thousand dollar Mac Pro to the Mac Studio
with the ultra chip and in almost every scenario the studio just blew the Mac Pro out of the water
and it's literally like a third of his cost and so a month or two ago before these M2 MacBook Pros
and the new trade-in values came out I actually did this process through Mac Man offer and you
know the response I got after I submitted the custom estimate offer he said so sorry we don't
want it because no one wants to buy an Intel Mac anymore especially for the crazy inflated prices
that the Mac Pro costs when you can get more performance for a fraction of the price and so
they were just like great computer tutor but it's just going to be too hard to sell for us to even
want it at this time so it seems the only option left is to sell privately 299 Mac Pro on eBay we
can see literally yesterday someone bought uh this 16 core for 6 000. it's 12 core for 4 800.
the computer is still selling but now let's talk about the much more interesting topic to me should
you sell it because again I love my Mac Pro I love the customizability being able to add those extra
gpus add the storage the fact that I have 16 ports on mine and all but one are taken up and obviously
I bought the computer out of a need I had the 2013 trashcan Mac Pro and it was slowing down my video
creation and so this for the past two or three years has been allowing me to produce videos a
lot better than any other computer I've ever had but I'm really starting to feel the effects of
not having Apple silicon so my developers now it just makes sense to have so much optimized power
that they are building their apps specifically for Apple silicon and you actually won't be able
to touch the same feature sets or performance that you can on the Intel Mac one of the perfect
examples of that is today's sponsor detail detail has quickly become one of my favorite Mac apps
because it allows you to record from iOS devices wirelessly or wired you can connect your Cinema
cameras if you want and easily get a multi-cam experience unlike any other but it doesn't just
stop there as a basic recorder you can go in edit your video their brand new AI tools allow you to
generate auto titles keywords transcribes your entire video and can even pull out highlights
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the description below so yeah while apps like detail can continue to work on my Mac Pro when
you open it up it basically says like hey you know this is optimized for the latest Apple silicon so
you may have not the same exact experience and when I grab my M1 MacBook Pro you just feel the
optimization on apps like that even though it's a severely underpowered computer and that's a
problem that's just going to continue to get uh more stretched out over time so what should Mac
Pro owners do what people forget is the pro line is supposed to be different than the Consumer line
in the consumer line we've all gotten used to hey new iPhones every year new Macs maybe every two or
three but the pro Tower line has always generally been something that at least gets like five to
seven years before a totally new updated model comes out it's not like when this computer was
released no one at Apple knew that Apple silicon wasn't coming and so the big question that's
continues to be left is will there be some sort of user upgradable option for existing Mac Pro
owners to where we can transition our computers to Apple silicon but at the end of the day whether
you have a Mac Pro a Mac Mini a MacBook Air or just any other computer the question you have
to ask yourself is is there a need that the new computer would fulfill that my current computer
isn't doing for me as I said I'm starting to feel the cons of not happening Apple silicon as DaVinci
Resolve gets way more optimized for Apple so can I know that the performance would be far better on
the newer chips apps like detail would work better and I'd get all of the fancy features but it's not
at the point now where I'm like desperately trying to sell this thing I've held out long enough where
I just need to see what apple is going to do with the Mac Pro what do you guys think let me know
down in the comments below until next time thanks so much for watching see you in the next video